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Time and a half.

Publisher Reason Foundation
Publication Reason
Subject Humanities
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0048-6906
Issues per Year 11
Volume v30
Issue n1
Published 1998-05-01

Role Type Name
Author n/a Nick Gillespie
Person Research Geoffrey Godbey

In Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time, John P. Robinson, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, and Geoffrey Godbey, a professor of leisure studies at Penn State, debunk the popular belief that we have less free time than in the past. Relying on time diaries kept over the past several decades by tens of thousands of individuals, the authors detail just how we pass our days and argue persuasively that treatises such as The Overworked American and The Second Shift, both of which conclude that leisure time is dwindling, are seriously mistaken. REASON Senior...

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